-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:55:24PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 4/17/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote: > >I'm working on a formula to enable a clean upgrade from 4.4 to 5.0. > >Unfortunately, not only we have a big glibc upgrade on our way, we > >also have some nasty package fragmentation. The best exemple > >is xorg-x11-libs, which was separated in several (10+, perhaps) > >packages. > > > >So far, I think the best plan is to create meta packages to solve > >this dependency hell. Lets call it meta-4.4to5.0-upgrade.noarch.rpm. > >This package should provide and requires the needed components. > > > >Unfortunatelly, this will probably change from system to system, > >which can become very nasty. In that case, we have two ways to procede: > > > >1) A script that will create a package specific for that given > > system > >2) Several meta packages > > > >I'm kind of leaning toward the second option, with a super meta > >package that will require them all (in case someone want to > >make things simples at the cost of installing extra packages). > > > >Comments ? Suggestions ? > > Are you looking for something otehr than anaconda for small memory or > something? I do not see live updates working for the faint of heart > from 4.4 -> 5.0 . Nah, mostly remote systems, hosted on datacenters or somewhere else. So far, the main problem I've encontered is really xorg. Go figure. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGJRlgpdyWzQ5b5ckRAkddAKC9i1xJwGRSl2tYZekyFCbCzgmwHQCfQhM4 Gh0b9WxuPmT+VTGRv58nb2w= =0ES3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----